"Incredible India" Sets World Record!

For an electricity blackout, that is. 22 of 28 states, 720 million people deprived of power. Wow! That's impressive.

You have to wonder, why with all the hype about India's faaa-bulous economic "development," no one thought to prepare for increased electricity demand.

Actually the blackout was all the farmers' fault. You see, thanks to an absence of rain, those crazy farmers all turned on irrigation pumps so their crops wouldn't die. What were they thinking! Those pumps are just for decoration, not actual use.

Here's a quote I found noteworthy:

"India has more poor people than all of Africa combined." -Gardner Harris, NY Times New Delhi correspondent , speaking on NPR news, 8/1/12, Morning Edition.

Somehow the capitalist Panglossians who spew the economic hype about "emerging economies" never mention facts like that.